Improved springs bed-bottom



I To all'whom- 'it muy concern y MARTINIn/III BURENsI-IEPAIID, orcHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

` I LeaersPaant No. 105,853, V.darafIJuzy26, 1870.

` IMPRovEn 'SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

u The .Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pai't of the sameY Be it known that I, MARTINVAN BUREN SHEPARD,

i of Chicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illi? nis,have invented an .Improved Spring Bed-Bottom; and I 'doliereby` declare thatI the following is a full,

clear, ,and exactdescription thereof, which `will enable those skilled in theart `to'make -and use the same, reference being hadj top the accompanying draw- -ing and letters marked thereon making a partof this specification, irr which? 1y y v 4Figure l is a `perspective representation of .a bedspring fastenedto the slat of Va bed-bottom by means ot' my invention. p i u Figure 2, a brokenfelevationof the Slat to which the spring and strap areattached, the whole being `constructed as hereinafter fully described.

` k The nature of the presentinvention consists in so 'forming thehase offthe spring that tmay be readily `clamped toa bell-Slat by means of a nut and screwjb'o'lt, while, at the same time, "the spring may be removed rfrom the Slat by simply loosening the nnt,`-bnt not-turning it off from the screw-bolt.

Q'lfhe difcultyheretoforeexperienced in fastening springs to bed-slats `bynntsfand screws, consists in the loss of nuts and screws during transportation or re- Vmoval. `But by means of-my device the springs can `be separately packed, while, at .the same time, the

I nuts, screws, andslats are combined all together.

G representsan ordinaryspiral 'spring used in the `construction ot" bed-bottoms.

i A is the .ordinary slat,yrunninug lengthwise of the bed, andv B is the strap or fastening which holds the slats A at the proper distance apart.-

Y Through the slat Ais placed a screw-bolt, C, whiolr `is provided with a nut, D,land washer, E, and which v holds thestrap B and spring G to the slat A. l

That part of the 'spring terminating its base is so bent over the screw-bolt G that the nut D will hold the spring fast tothe Slat, but itv (the spring) is `left open at its lower end, 'so that it may be removed from the'slat A by simplylooseningkthe nut D.

The strap D isjsecured by the samescre\V-bolt, O,

which fastens the spring G, as shown in both igures,

said strap reaching from lslat to slat across the bed-r "bottom, to hold the `slats A, in the nsual manner. Having thus described my invention,

Vha't I claim, and desire to secure by- Letters Pat? ent of the United States, is-

An improvement'in bed-bottoms, consisting of the spring Gr, so bent over at the termination of its base that it may be held to a slat, A, by means of a screwbolt, C, and nut, D,in combination with a tie-strap,

B', held by the same'bolt, the aforesaid spring being I removed without taking ofi' the nut D, as and for the purpose set forth.

M. V. B. SHEPARD.V \Vitnesses:

G. L. CHAIIN, E. E. GIBSON. 

